I don’t have this burning, overriding desire to go out and run for office. It’s not the single animating force in my life as it was for quite some time. But I do recognize, to some degree, it’s now or maybe never for me, in terms of running for something. I’m trying to gauge not only what’s right and what feels comfortable right this second, but I’m also thinking, How will I feel in a year or two years or five years? Is this the time that I should be doing it? And then there’s the other side of the coin, which is … am I still the same person who I thought would make a good mayor?

So Anthony Weiner is thinking of running for mayor of New York City, complete with New York Times Magazine profile announcing his political ambitions. Can he pull off the big comeback? (via shortformblog)

(via shortformblog)

The final confession was made to Sen. Chuck Schumer, Anthony Weiner’s political mentor.

“When he told the truth, … both men began to cry,” according to the book.

The book, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives,” by journalist Robert Draper, is scheduled to be released Tuesday. The NY Post obtained a copy yesterday.


Now that the Anthony Weiner saga is behind us we can, as the media told us, move on to more important things. I for one, did not realize how important the Casey Anthony trial is. I better start following it.

“It was sort of a perfect storm. Democrats don’t support their own in these situations. Republicans love to be on the right side of a scandal like this, because it doesn’t happen that often. And you get the media, and particularly the political media, most of whom are morons. So you give them something that they can actually understand — a penis.” - Keith Olbermann on the Anthony Weiner scandal.

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